Karolina

given name · Polish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Karolina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Caroline.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 127◐
  • PLPoland1 in 130
  • CZCzechia1 in 145

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1M ●

across 15 countries

#220 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
429 ●

3.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 130 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

CarolinaLatin · Spanish●5.3M records
КаролинаCyrillic · Russian●82K records
ΚαρολιναGreek · Greek●354 records
ᲙაროლინაGeorgian · Georgian●185 records
ԿարոլինաArmenian · Armenian●2 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carolina in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 13 more, Karolin in DK Denmark, DE Germany, CR Costa Rica, Каролина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Кароліна in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a female given name, equivalent to English Caroline

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Karolina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#931,810,9291M rec.—275Carolina181
VE Venezuela#25881,401799K rec.——Carolina126
MX Mexico#117482,058356K rec.—1.7KCarolina249
CL Chile#25466,80936K rec.—74Carolina186
CO Colombia#21374,63479K rec.—115Carolina226
PL Poland#37295,011△52K rec.1 in 130295KKarolina230
PY Paraguay#18248,27058K rec.——Carolina55
PE Peru#143218,551169K rec.——Carolina106
US United States—198,800203K rec.1 in 1.7K199KCarolina429
BR Brazil#172195,454183K rec.1 in 1.1K214KCarolina249
FR France—156,560△29 rec.1 in 433157K—7
SV El Salvador#18125,73093K rec.——Carolina71

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Polish1.4M66%
  • Czech346K16%
  • Portuguese153K7%
  • Spanish61K3%
  • English35K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish1,431,24066%
Czech345,93616%
Portuguese153,4537%
Spanish61,2593%
English35,4722%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Karolina is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name325K records spelled Karolina79 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Venezuela

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English

    Also written Karolína, Karólína, Kärölïnä, Karo-Lina, K'Arolina

  • Finnish given name17K records spelled Karolina8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Karolinä, Karolína, Kärõlïnä, Kärölinä, Kãrölïnä

  • Lithuanian given name7.4K records spelled Karolina11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Karolīna, Carolina, Karoļina, Carolīnâ, Karolinà

  • Hungarian given name6.7K records spelled Karolina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Karolína, Ķãrolinä, Kárólíná, Kärölïnä

  • Indonesian given name6.0K records spelled Karolina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Karolína

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Karolina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Karolína, Karólína, Karolīna

  • Swahili given name1.2K records spelled Karolina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

    Also written Kàrolinà, Karolína

  • English given name1.1K records spelled Karolina188 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Carolyn, Carlota, Carolin, Karolyn, Carolina

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Karolina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, Caroline

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • Scandinavian, Polish, and Czech form of CAROLINE .

    as a word

  • In Swedish, a female given name from Latin Carolina or French Caroline, masculine equivalent Karl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200192019401960198020002020190 · 2007

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Karolina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2025
Yearrecords
19175
19185
19205
19635
19655
19737
19756
19766
19776
19787
19796
19807
198111
198213
198315
198418
198517
198612
198724
198825
198934
199034
199127
199256
199386
1994100
199588
199698
1997108
199898
1999103
2000112
2001116
2002125
2003137
2004162
2005156
2006165
2007190
2008156
2009170
2010166
2011124
2012118
2013116
2014134
2015126
2016116
2017124
2018104
2019114
2020128
2021107
2022145
2023165
2024186
2025177

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 57 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt, b. 1723Ani Lorak, b. 1978Tuva Matilda Moa Karolina Hedström, b. 1979Karolina Gočeva, b. 1980Karolina Wydra, b. 1981Karolína Kurková, b. 1984Karolina Šprem, b. 1984Karolína Plíšková, b. 1992Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, b. 1994Karolína Muchová, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 73 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Karolina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—295K#18
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026295K#18
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21K#198
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202211K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—11K#1,622
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—7.9K#2,504
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.3K#3,359
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20206.1K—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6.1K#244
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5.1K#636
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.5K#691
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—3K#268

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 776 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Karolina?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Karolina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Karolina have the most bearers?
Karolina is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled carolina.
How common is Karolina compared with other names?
In Argentina, Karolina is the 93rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Karolina a male or female name?
Karolina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Karolina mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Caroline
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karolina” — the 93rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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